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    Need one to play some good games like BF2 Bad company, Spore, Left for Dead 2 and most importanly, S2TW and one that is good and not a bad price. What do you think the bare minuium should be for my specs?

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    Core i- series CPUs and, for AMD (formerly ATI) graphics cards, anything no less than 5870 are good basics to build your rig upon, me thinks. I played BC2 at full settings.

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    I was going to buy mine from Dell if possible, and customize it. Think I can get what you telling me to get from them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntiKingWarmanCake88 View Post
    Need one to play some good games like ... Spore
    Is that a joke?

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    I always wondered about building my own PC - aside from the components listed, are there any additional minor things needed to put together a PC? Heat sinks, special adhesives, etc or do the various components come with everything needed? Also, with regards to motherboards and cases, there are a million different models/types out there, how do you decide which are good ones? For example, Psychonaut, why did you pick that motherboard (aside that it matches up with the CPU) over all the others?
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    Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
    Is that a joke?

    $1,000 or under or so, presuming I can make montly payments on it .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi View Post
    I always wondered about building my own PC - aside from the components listed, are there any additional minor things needed to put together a PC? Heat sinks, special adhesives, etc or do the various components come with everything needed? Also, with regards to motherboards and cases, there are a million different models/types out there, how do you decide which are good ones? For example, Psychonaut, why did you pick that motherboard (aside that it matches up with the CPU) over all the others?
    A screwdriver (phillips head) is basically all you need. Most modern CPUs come with the heatstuff applied, and a heatsink/fan included.

    Everything else is included, but if your computer has a whole bunch of extra stuff (say 2 DVD drives, 4 hard drives like mine) you'll probably need some extra cables.

    Motherboard choice is really the socket. Once you have that, you can check individual specifications, some have different ports on the back plate (i upgraded mine so my current one has a bunch of USB 3.0 ports on the back) and sometimes double/triple channel RAM.

    Cases are mostly: Does it look good. Presuming it fits your motherboard, then you're pretty much good to go. Some people get caught up on airflow, but the only problem I've come across with any case is not having enough room for a super huge graphics card (some can't handle the ~10" cards, it starts to hit the drive bays)
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    It's always worth to have a little tube of silver-based heat paste. That's what, $8 per tube, and it's always kind of disappointing to find you got all your components but miss/run out of paste.
    The only thing to think of on top of the list is maybe a wireless NIC (if you don't want to use ethernet cables), plus a card reader if you need it.

    Motherboard choice: what pevergreen said, although you can augment your choice with a little rationalisation by reading a couple reviews and seeing if there are any significant (BIOS) issues. Google is good for that. There are a few pitfalls of course: USB 1.1, only 2 slots for RAM.

    Apart from looks, as far as cases go it is mostly checking the motherboard fits in the case (in this particular instance you would check for a case which supports Micro ATX). Bonus things are air filters (definitely worth it, but not on cheaper cases usually).
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    Thanks for the info. That is helpful and I'll file that away for the future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi View Post
    For example, Psychonaut, why did you pick that motherboard (aside that it matches up with the CPU) over all the others?
    Well. The manufacturer for one, Gigabyte, trustworthy and good quality. Second the chipset. Third the number, 880, 8xx series is newest, and x80 has a good number of features without the extra cost the x90 has. Finally the features it actually has, generally mobo's are pretty standard, but reading up on what they offer is pretty important (which is related to the product number).
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